Stanković V.
The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453
A cura di Stanković V. - Lexington Books, Lanham (Maryland) 2016
Series: Byzantium: A European Empire and Its Legacy
This
book represents the first attempt to analyse historical and cultural
developments in late medieval and early modern South Eastern Europe, as a set
of intertwined regional histories, burdened by the strong dichotomy between the
almighty centre—Constantinople—and the periphery that is rarely visible in both
contemporary sources and modern scholarship. These original studies are devoted
to various regions of the Byzantine Balkans and show the complex character and
fragmented structure of this vast region with his huge variety of histories,
arts and ideologies. The book focus on the two captures of Constantinople in
1204 and 1453, and the contributors analyse the significance of these
catastrophic events on the political destiny of medieval Balkan societies, the
mechanisms of adapting to the new political order, and the ever-present
interconnectedness of a lower, regional elite across South Eastern Europe that
had remained strong even after the Ottoman conquest.
A cura Di Chiara Galli
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